This week’s episode includes conversations about net neutrality, workplace sexual harassment, bitcoin, worsening global inequality, Europe’s recovery and instability, and using prison labor to fight fires. This episode also features a discussion of consumerism, strategies for revolting against capitalism and the economics of alternative populisms.

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